It’s now or never for the 2012 Farm Bill – speak out today!

As of this month, our nation’s food and farm policy in the form of the 2008 Farm Bill has officially expired, with no workable replacement moving forward in Congress. This has left critical programs high and dry with no funding – and means Congress dodged the chance to make real reforms and an investment in an equitable, sustainable future for food and farms in America.

With no new farm bill or extension, the programs that address rural and urban job creation, training opportunities for beginning farmers, natural resource conservation, and access to healthy food are in big trouble.

Can Congress still finish a farm bill this year? YES!

There is a short window of time for Congress to finish the bill when they return to DC after Election Day. So when Congress returns to the Hill, we’ll need YOU and other farmers and advocates across the country to tell them loud and clear: we need an equitable, sustainable 2012 Farm Bill!

The older I grow, the more educated I become by what the farmers bring to us. With that, of course, the organically grown food vs. generically modified organisms (GMO). Monsanto and Cargill are BIG corporations. But there are companies like Stonyfield, which brings hope for tomorrow’s food supply. Our kids and grandkids depend on it. Thank you!

It is not “Congress” but the Republicans in their committed pledge to make sure Pres. Obama would be a one term president and they were/are willing to destroy the lives of Americans to do so. I was raised on a farm and would not trade my childhood for anything. Working on the land is good for a person; mind, body and spirit. Thank You.

We need a 2012 Farm Bill that “invests in the future of healthy farms, food, and people……
Protects our precious air, soil, and water….
Reforms farm subsidies and levels the playing field.”
Please do the right thing for our environment and the wellbeing of our citizens.